Zimbabwe: small reasons to hope?
If you’ve been following recent news out of Zimbabwe, you know that the leadup to the June 27th run-off election has featured shockingly violent intimidation,… Read More »Zimbabwe: small reasons to hope?
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June 2008
Chris Kelty: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Anthropologist Christopher Kelty is visiting Harvard from Rice, discussing his book “Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software” at the Berkman Center today. The… Read More »Chris Kelty: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
The lengths some guys will go to for a blog post…
The lengths that some guys will go to so they have something to blog about! You thought it was bad when I had retinal surgery… Read More »The lengths some guys will go to for a blog post…
Simple examples of cool ideas – last post from MIT conference
Part of the fun of having an academic life based in Cambridge, MA, is that you’ve gotten to see a great deal of the most… Read More »Simple examples of cool ideas – last post from MIT conference
Cellphones, civic media and conversations with winged carnivores
It’s the third day of MIT’s Future of Civic Media Conference, and I’m still finding that I can’t get the phrase “civic media” to come… Read More »Cellphones, civic media and conversations with winged carnivores
Activism, art and future civic media
Chris Csikszentmihalyi is an artist and provocateur as well as a programmer, inventor and professor. The projects he’s most excited about within MIT’s Center for… Read More »Activism, art and future civic media